My name is Jim. I am from Hoonah Alaska. I posted and maybe my post is invisible? Nothing worse than posting with excitement and get 0 reply's. Maybe I am not doing this right so I am going to try to start over. I hope I am accepted. Jim ps - Google chrome will not allow me to login here so I had to...

Miller Mig 251 30A spool gun I mostly weld aluminum Part 1 Been thinking about this for some time. My welder has a wire speed adjuster on the welder and also an adjustment knob on the spool gun. What is the standard protocol for adjusting wire speed? adjust on the spool gun. Do I turn the machine sp...

UPDATE After several years of occasional use of this spool gun, I discovered (smh) it is running much hotter than what the dial read-out says. When the chart says to turn my dial to 21 volts, I found that 19 volts is closer to correct. I should not have put that much faith in what the machine dial s...

Yeah, probably an old subject. Miller 251 with spoolmatic 30A gun tank with pin holes to repair - 5052? aluminum plate? 3/16" x 3" aluminum flat bar for repair job - 6061? Filler wire - ER4043 I cut off a piece of 3" flat bar (aluminum 3/16") to patch a hole in a aluminum tank wh...

I need a 1 1/2" female NPT aluminum weld bung. I found one on amazon but they won't ship to Alaska.
Anyone know of a reliable aluminum part source?

Jim

Thanks guys. Portaban is one tool I don't have. I'll have to google some of the other things said here. I do have a Miller plasma cutter, sawsall, 4.5" cutoff tool, a larger grinder, jigsaw. I also have a 12" chop saw. I could never get the plasma cutter to do a clean cut on aluminum, not ...

I'm trying to match up two 5" aluminum pipes and I must cut the base plate off the original in order to extend the piece another 7 feet. I'll put a insert pipe in then weld to finish it for the extension. Right now I am simply thinking of wrapping a piece of straight cardboard around the whole ...

I am looking for information on nozzles sizing for mig welding (aluminum) as I was looking at buying a new nozzle for my spoolmatic 30A spool gun. While I understand why nozzles are shaped for specialty welding (corners etc), I am not so sure what the different nozzle opening sizes mean; 1/2" ....

Hi guys, My name is Jim and I live in Alaska USA. My primary interest started with my wood boat. As a commercial fisherman I occasionally have a project to do that involves aluminum among other things. I use to borrow a friends (miller regency 250 & adapted spool gun) welder but finally bought m...